Re: Lilypond music

[David Feuer]

On 3/9/07, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote in
bug-lilypond (top-posting reversed):

> Nick Mengham wrote:
> > I down loaded the win XP version of Lilypond all it does is make a rather
> > ordinary notated scale in PDF.  It seem a very large file to do that. Is there
> > some thing else I should be doing?  I do not have winzip, is that a problem?
>
> As you have noticed, LilyPond is fairly different from most other programs
> you have used in Windows. Among others, it's one of the programs where you
> cannot really expect to be able to do anything useful unless you have
> read the Tutorial.

I doubt very many users are under the impression that LilyPond can
only create one scale.  However, I do think this message suggests that
we consider what purpose the introductory file is supposed to serve
and whether it does a good job of that.  My guess is that it might be
better to use a larger, but still simple, example that will
immediately show that LilyPond produces higher-quality sheet music
than other software.

David